Postcolonial Studies Reading List
*Required Readings
*Achebe, Chinua.
Things Fall Apart
*Aidoo, Ama Ata.
Our Sister Killjoy: of,
Reflections From a Black-Eyed Squint
*Armah, Ayi Kwei.
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet
Born
*Arundhati, Roy.
The God of Small Things
*Bennet, Louise.
“Bans O’Ooman!,” “Registration,” “Dutty Tough,” “Colonisation in
Reverse,” “Dry Foot Bwoy,” “No Lickle Twang!,” “Pass fe White,” “Back to
Africa,” “Bans O’Killing,” “My Dream,” “Jamaica Elevate,” “Colour-Bar”
*Brand, Dionne.
no languge is neutral
*Brathwaite, Edward Kamau. The Arrivants
*Breeze, Jean Binta.
Riddym Ravings and Other Poems
*Cliff, Michelle.
No Telephone to Heaven
*Coetzee, D.M. Waiting for the Barbarians
*Emecheta, Buchi.
The Joys of Motherhood
*Ghosh, Amitav.
The Shadow Lines
*Gordimer, Nadine.
The Burgher’s Daughter
*Goodison, Lorna.
Heartease
*Head, Bessie.
The Collector of Treasures
*Hodge, Merle.
Crick Crack, Monkey
*Johnson, Linton Kwesi. Tings an Times
*Kincaid, Jamaica.
Annie John
*Kureishi, Hanif.
My Beautiful Laundrette
*Lamming, George.
In the Castle of My Skin
*Lovelace, Earl.
The Wine of Astonishment
*Naipaul, V.S.
Mimic Men
*Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Weep not, Child
*Okri, Ben. The Famished Road
*Rhone, Trevor. Old Story Time and Other Plays
*Rushdie, Salman.
Midnight’s Children
*Selvon, Sam. Moses Ascending
*Soyinka, Wole.
The Beautification of Area Boy
*Walcott, Derek.
The Castaway and Other Poems, Dream on Monkey Mountain
For Further Reading
Fiction/Poetry/Drama
Achebe, Chinua.
No Longer at Ease
Aidoo, Ama Ata.
The Dilemma of a Ghost
Alexander, Meena.
Nampally Road
Brodber, Erna.
Jane and Louise Will Soon Come
Home, Louisiana
Cliff, Michelle. Abeng
Coetzee, D.M. Foe
Dabydeen, David.
Coolie Odyssey
Desai, Anita. Bramgartner’s Bombay, Clear Light of Day
Emecheta, Buchi. Second Class Citizen
Espinet, Ramabai.
Nuclear Seasons: Poems
Ghosh, Amitav.
The Circle of Reason
Goodison, Lorna.
Baby Mother and the King of Swords
Head, Bessie. A Question of Power
Kincaid, Jamaica. Lucy
Kureishi, Hanif.
The Black Album
Lovelace, Earl.
The Dragon Can’t Dance
Mehta, Ved. The Ledge Between the Streams
Monar, Rooplall.
Koker
Naipaul, V.S. A House for Mr. Biswas,
Namjoshi, Suniti.
The Mothers of Maya Diip
Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Petals of Blood
Nichols, Grace. I is a long memoried woman
Okara, Gabriel.
The Fisherman’s Invocation
Ondaatje, Michael.
Running in the Family
Persaud, Lakshmi.
Butterfly in the Wind
Philip, Marlene Nourbese. She Tries Her Tongue, Her
Silence Softly Breaks
Phillips, Caryl.
Higher Ground, Cambridge, Crossing
the River
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea
Rushdie, Salman.
Shame, The Satanic Verses
Salkey, Andrew.
Anancy Traveller
Saro-Wiwa, Ken.
Sozaboy
Scott, Dennis.
Strategies
Selvon, Sam. The Lonely Londoners
Senior, Olive.
Summer Lightening, Arrival of the
Snakewoman and Other Stories
Shinebourne, Janice.
The Last English Plantation
Sistern Theatre.
Lionheart Gal: Life Stories of
Jamaican Women
Soyinka, Wole.
The Interpreters
Tutuola, Amos.
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Walcott, Derek.
The Gulf, Other Poems, Omeros
Zephaniah, Benjamin.
City Psalms
Theory
Ashcroft, Bill, et al. eds. The Empire Writes
Back: Theory and Practice in
Post-Colonial Literatures
Bhabha, Homi K.
The Location of Culture
Brathwaite, Edward.
History of the Voice: The
Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry
Brand, Dionne.
Sight Specific: Lesbians and
Representation
Cabril, Amilcar.
National Liberation and Culture
Chatterjee, Partha.
Nationalist Thought in the Colonial
World: A Derivative Discourse?
Chinweizu. Towards the Decolonization of African
Literature
Coetzee, J.M. White Writing
Fanon, Frantz. Black
Skin, White Masks, The Wretched of the Earth, Studies in a Dying Colonialism
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. “Race,” Writing and
Difference
Glissant, Edouard.
Caribbean Discourse
Guha, Ranajit.
Selected Subaltern Studies
James, C.L.R. Beyond a Boundary
Lamming, George. The Pleasures of Exile
Mannoni, O. Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of
Colonization
Memmi, Albert.
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
Decolonizing the Mind: The
Politics of Language in African Literature
Pratt, Mary Louise.
Imperial Eyes: Transculturation
Rushdie, Salman.
Imaginary Homelands
Saakana, Amon Saba.
The Colonial Legacy in Caribbean
Literature
Said, Edward. Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Outside in the Teaching
Machine
Walcott, Derek.
“The Muse of History,” The
Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory
Williams, Patrick and Laura Chrisman, eds. Colonial
Discourse and Postcolonial Theory